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After a further discussion, in which Sir J. Ntztv rottr, Mr. PARNELL, and Col. BARRY, participated, the ;Resolution was agreed to. The House resolved itself into a Committee on . the Assessed Taxes Bill,- in which Mr. LETHBRI DGE proposed a Duty of five guintas-• on every person who kept a double-barrelled gun, but on the - suggestion of Mr. Hosittssobi xvithdritse) his Motion, for the purpose of bringing it forward' in a Committee of Ways and Means. The House having been resumed, the Report was ordered to be received on Tuesday se'nnight. The CHANCELLOR of the Exc EQU ER gave notice that he would to-morrow move for the adjourntnent of the House to Tuesday se'nnight. Mr.WR A ETON brought up the Report of the COM. mittee on the Irish Recognizances Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Tuesday se'nnight. The Irish Customs Fee . Bill was read a third time end passed. • On the.inotion of Mr N. VANSITTART, Accounts Were ordered to be laid before the House of the Eifeaive Force of the Regulars, Militia, and Volun teers on the Ist - of January 1801, 2, 3, - 4p 5; 6,7, and A, distinguishing Cavalry and Infantry. The Irish Promissory Note Bill was read a third time, and passed. A new Writ was ordered for the Borough of Great Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, in the room of C. •Clitheroe, Esq. who, since his eleelion, had ac. cepted the office of Steward of the'Cbiltern Hun. dreds. PETITIONS'AC;AINST ORDERS IN COUNCIL. On the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CIIIMUER i the House Fesolyed itself into a Com mittee, fur the. furthercbnsideration of the Petitions against the Orders in Council, and for the further examination of Witnesses relative to them, Mt. Wharton in the Chair : when the following Gentle , Men were called to the Barand exaTined, Mr. Dewar, 'Mr. Robert Sheddon,Mr: Lockart, and Mr. Inglis. They were examined by ME. Stephens, Mr. Alarriot, Alex. Baring, Mr.• Eden, the Solicitor-General and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The other Witnesses are to be examined on Tuesday se'nnight.---Adjourued at Two o'Clock. MAILS. ARRIVID—I Waterford. Do z--$ Gottenburgh, t Dublin, / Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS ?MII DAY At TW&L.VI O'CLOCE. Comols .• - .6s I Reduced Anti. . 641 65 THE SUN. tOGX:d QUIS DICSAS 14 .SUM AUDIAT I LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 141 1808' A variety of speculations have been,advanced re speaing the destination of the Rochefort Squadron, which we Stated yesterday to have been seen in lat. 31. N. long. 69. NV: steering a N., N. W. course. We however retain the opinion, which we YeserdaY submitted to our Readers, that its first destination was tie Chesapeake; and for the reasons which we gave, we entertain strong hopes that they will there meet with Sir J. Ducxworrvii. What obie6t. Boo tgAP4RTB can have in view for sending this .Stpiftdron. to the Coast of America, under the present eiretitn , stances, we have not the means of ascertaining, and with the limited information before us, it is idle toinciulge in conjeaures upon the subjeta. We en tertain, however, very sanguine hopd the next in telligence from that quarter will inform us that his objea, whatever it may be, has been•completely frustrated. We adverted some days ago to the charge which Was brought, so confidently, by the Opposition, Against Mr. Pyres Administration, for having, in • 1805, compromised the maritime privileges of this Country, in order to include Russia to join in the ' Coalition against France. Unluckily for the Op position, they were not satisfied with making this Ps , • • sertion, they ca ll e d f or P apers to prove it :.those Pa pers we now present to our Readers, and as n proof how ready Lord G. L. Gowan, - our Minister at Petersburgh, was to conipromise our maritime , rights, 'we find the following expression in his first Letter to Lord NiewitAvt.s.:—" I thought it necessary to der Clare, in the first instance, that it was impossible fur sne it) agree to any article which in the most indirea manner implied that any alteration !night be esx» pedient in the present system of the Maritime Law." The next Letter of Lord Gowan affords a 401 more decisive proof, according to the candour of Opposition reasoning, of the disposition of Mr. Pays Administration to compromise the Mari. time Rights of this Country. His Lordship says, " NO consideration, not even the certainty l of a total rupture of the Negotiations between Gteat., Britain and Russia, could have induced me to consent to submit the Maritime Code to the determination of a Congress." The Dispatch of Lord MuLaaAvE ay Lord G. L. GOWER, dated June 7, 1805, con t3ir's a similar determination, in language equally strong. Upon such foundations du the present con sistent and pitriotic Opposition found their charges' against Administration. It is not a little amusing to see how frequently the Opposition Papers betray their owu cause, and., in reaching at a miserable jubt on their opOone4t . l, stouOle against . so.De melancholy rtfledion On thei r fritArtds ! , " Certain it says Illy Morning ChrO 7 nicle, while labouring to drawl out symethi4 lively , • at the exponee of Mr. CANNING, whose ' trophies, Mt those of MuLTlA.bes, will not let hi's patrons sleep ;,;.." Certain it is that BUONAPIITE ' his not been seen to relax a single feature ; and that aniont all the 'hews*we receive front every part of the Con . tinent there is neither a roar of laughter, nor even the social chuckle and shaking of sides, Which be token the return of good humour !" We candidly allow the Morning Chronicle that neither the latt guafe nor the condo& of Mr. CANNING is Much' calculated to "relax the features of BeoNAPARTE :" nor. do we imagine that be is at all solicitous to pro duce such an effea. Perhaps the efforts of its own patrons may be more happily directed to that end ; and yet we know not. The features of the tyrant are of an iron cast, and require events somewhat out of the common way to mould them intocom placency. 'When he swept the streets of Paris.with his,cannen, and waded to the knees in blood to re ceive the thanks of the Convention, his " features relaxed !" When he mowed down the wretched Inhabitants of Toulon, by repeated discharges of grape-shot, his " features relaked !" When he !massacred four thousand Prisoners in cold blood, his " features relaxed.!" When' he poisoned his own hospitals, his." features. relaxed !" When he assassi rimed the nuke D'ENGulets, his" features relaxed t" When he racked the brave PICHAGIIII to death in prison, his•" features relaxed !" but never, as the Morning Chronicle most truly observes, did a single • muscle of his face unbend at any speech or any a& of Mr. CANNING'S life. Whether an inaptitude to produce merriment in BIIONAPAIITR will hereafter be reckoned among the political sins of this Gentle man May be reasonably donbted: at present we be. lieve little regret is felt on the subje&, but such as is experienced by the Morning Chronicle. This Paper is also corre& in saying that " in no part of .the Continent does a roar of laughter, &c.. betoken the return of good humour !! !" How ,should it ? 'Whence does the Morning Chronicle exPea , it to come ? From ,Russia, whom BUON .APARTE is, dragging through the mire of baseness ? from Austria, who is counting the days of her existence with every mark of terror? from Prussia, who sits in ashes, and is forbidden to tuti.• an audi ble groan ? from Germany, given up to :ill the hor rors of a . city taken by storm ? from Portugal, whose streets are choked with the dying and the dead ? From Spain, who.sees her.* fettered that her ex piring agonies may exhibit no convulsive efforts ? Surely when' the writer in the Morning Chronicle duly refleas on these circumstances, however anxious he may feel to promote the hilarity of BUONAPAUTE, or the "' Mar of Continental laughter," he .will abate somewhat of his astonishment at its not being excited by the language of Mr. CANNING. In or dinary cases he is ..not Much in the habit of doing justice to the speeches of His Majesty's Ministers; ware therefore the more surprised at his expeae tiotts of an efiet little less than miraculous from them on the present occasion. It will gratify us to find that what we have urged has convinced this Paper of its unreasonableness, as we shall other wise be obliged to return to a sebjea by no means agreeable to us. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY arriv ed at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor, where he was met by the Dukes of YORK, .K.arcr, CUMUER LAND, and Sussex, At two o'clock hii 111Artai'ry held a private Levee, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the I.Ord President of the Council, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Judge Advo cate; the Secretary of State for the Irish Department, the Chief Baron of Ireland, Viscount Stratigford, Lords Rivers (in waiting) and Heathcote (Gold Stick). Sirs A. Wellesley and S. Cotterel, Admiral Berkeley, Generals Oakes and Garth, Colonels Anson and Cunningham, Messrs. O'Grady and What's (Groom in waiting). The following had the honour of being presented to His MAJESTY'•t • Rear Admiral Berkeley, upon his return from America, by Lord Mulgtave. The Right lion. Standish O'Grady, upon his being ap. pointed Chief Baron of Ireland, by Sir Arthur Welleslev. Master Augustus Geo Anson, upon his being apprniacti a Page of Honour to the Q rge UM. by the Earl of llarcourr. Major-General Oakes, upon Ms being appointed so a corn. mand at Malta. Lieut.. Colonel Cunningham. of the Dorset Volunteers. upon his going to the Brazils, by General Garth. The Hon.' Charles Townshend, by his father, Lord Bayn. ing. ViSCOUIIt STRANG/FORD, his Majesty's Envoy Es- . traorclinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Portugal, took leave of his MAJESTY pre vious to his departure for that country. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, and gave an dienca to the Duke of Ponrs,AND,and the other. Ca billet Ministers ; likewise to Mr: RYDER, the Judge Advocate, who laid before his MAJESTY the pro. ceedings of some Courts Martial: Soon after six o'clock his IVIAJEs-vr set off on biti return to Wind sor. Early yesterday morning the Duke of CAMBRIDGE left London for Windsor. His Royal Highness ac companied her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES to her Majesty's house at Froginore, where they dined, and spent the day with a sole& party. This morning, at half-past five, the Scrutineers reported the numbers voted by the Candidates for the East India direetion, viz. Mr. Plowden 1616 Mr. Huddlestone 1455 Mr. Mills. - 14►2 Mr. Ribarts - 1 340 Mr. Robinson - 1337 I whereupon the six first on the list were deeloied duly eleded. Mr. Bannerman Mr. Parry i RI Mr. Will►ams - 94 6 Mr. l ruin - 613 NAVAL NEWS. . . , PLYMOUTH, APuiL it.— Arrived the fic k le Schermer froin a cruize. Sailed the .Ei igar, of •;1, ions, Capt. MICNANIATIA, for Portsmouth, to join the Squadron destined for the Baltic. The4/e2.. Anckia Frigate is gone out of harbour, having been refitted. The Nemesis Frigate is hourly expe6led from the eastward to take the trade under convoy bound to Newfoundland and North America. • The Ruse .Sloop of War went out of harbour last evening, end sailed to the west card. - Sailed the Donegal, of 74 giins, to the westward; - Mediator Store-ship with bullocks for the Squadron off the Tagus ; and the Endeavour Armed Brig with men for the . same Squadron.. • PORTIMOUTII, APRIL, 13.-- , Yesterday arrived tli , 2 , following outward-bbund Ships, from the Downs, Vi Z.- General Boyd, Russell. ' Power, Juno; Sims, Addiniton, Parry, Prosped, Taylor, Adthiral Berkeley; Douro, Ste. phensoa, Baltic Merl:limit, Bowser, Aim, Nary an, Bruc. Grove, Sandwell, Young bun, Quebec, Bayley, Germah Packet, Foster, Britannia, Lamb, Lord Nlelville, and. Vene rable, Drat well. This day arrived the Vulture Sloop of War, Cr.ap PEARCE, and Lightning. Fire Ship, Capt.. DOYIA s with a Convoy from the-Downs, among which are the Vulture, CHRISTIE, for, the South Seas; and Hope, SHIELDS, for Tobago. Sailed the Tigre, of 80 guns, Capt. FIALLOWF.LI:, and Courageux - , 74, Capt. Bissarr, to the Easy. ward; and Par/inn/tan Brig, Capt. CHAMBERS, on a cruize. The Brilliant Frigate takes Contoy to Gaermey and Jersey. SHEERNESS, APRIL t I.—Arrived the Bold Gun brig, Lieut. thriveus, to repair. Sailed for the River the Deptford Tender. The Crescent Fri ate is ordered to , Wools,vich to repair. Capt.CHARLTON is appointed to the Sappho Sloop of War, for the West Indies. The Sirius, Capt. PROWSE, is come into harbour. Passed by for the River MO East India►nen. Arrived a few Sail of Colliers. APRIL 12.---Arrived the Calypso Sloop of War, Capt. BRADBY, from the Dewns, to repair; also a Tender from thu Ttiwer, with 65 Volunteers and itnprest men, mostly good seamen, for the Fleet. Sailed this day his Majesty's Ship Seagull, with . five Sail under convoy, to Heligoland. Came clown front the River a Frigate. NAVAL AI PPINTMENTS.—Eits Excellency Sir E. Patt.sw has recently mach: the following Promotions , in tics Majesty's squadrou : Captain Buct; of . th e Rattlesnake, to the temporary command of hi s Ma jesty's Ship Powerful ; Lieut. &tan% of the Culloden, to be Commander of the Rattlesnake ; Capt. WELLS, of the Pit or, to the 'temporary Command of the Duncun ; Lieut. GROUBE, of the Culloden, to be Commander of the Trio or ; Lieut. C. OWEN to be Commander in the Navy, and Governor of Madras Hospital ; Mr. W. 13. DAsnWonn io be. Lieutenant of the Culoden ; Mr. C. Potriti• tb be ditto of the Powerful; Mr. Enw. HiNfiIIADI to be ditto of ditto ,Mr. M. M. KELLY to be ditto of the Pitt ; Mr. J. G. APLIN to be ditto of the jrrognnt ; Mr.' H. J. SWEEDLAND to be ditto of the Rattlesnake. On the day of the departure of Ilk Atijesty's'Fri ete for England, on the 29th uit. with.the Right tiou. Lord Wm. limiustou. and hi; 'family, 'captain received an or‘Wr frca his tcLllencySir . Pat.t.t\* to change her name from the Pitt to. the Sakelte; the . Frigate lately launched .by that name, at Aotnbay, being altered to the Pitt, now commanded by C. COLE, EN. The Cnittycait.olt of the Excittmvzies Bill for improving the condition of `Caratea'does honour to his humanity. A measure of this kind has long been Wanted, and it may be attended with more ad vantage than the Mere relief of the. unbeneflced Clergy—it may animate them to a more at%ve zeal in discharging their duty, and thereby check the growth of Methodism, which has prodigiously in- creased within the hit few years in the extent of its influence and the abgurdity of its doCtrines, Zir. WHITBREAD has been particularly unlucky in all the Motions which he made on the Subjeft of the Danish, Expedition, as every document he obtained only served to contradi& what he was en deavouring .to establish. But his manner was rot less unfortunate than his matter, for even his own party could not think . that ,he ,held forth any striking example of courtesy, delicacy, and that deportment which ought to characterize people in . his rank of life. .: The investigation of the .Annandale Title and Es tates is now before the House of Peers, and will probably soon. be brought to a h e a r i n g. There is a claimant„General SQUTRII Jo H N SIC N it, whose rights we are.satiktked will not be overlooked, though he should be unable to urge therm with all the advan. taps of legal advice and_forensic eloquence. That veteran and respeaable Officer, if we are not nlisin• formed, cgt produce clear and incontrovertible proofs of his being thene*t heir at law to the itmnense property and the high title which are now in abey ance. . It .might be conceived that Mr. Witipiram would have had more delicacy and•taste than to have been Ckllo of the first to attack Lord CASTLEREAGH'S flew Military Plan, for, as he had himself brought forward a System of quite R. Utopian kind, in censuring the measures of another he might naturally be thought to burn "Or with a Rival's or a Eunuch's spite." . The Lh istol Packet,. By RY, bound for New-York, was taken January 24, and scanted, by the Penelope and Thenzesis, French 40-gun Frigates : on the 27th; t hey captured the Brigs Prient and' Ranzsgate, told scuttled Them immediately, iu North latitude 46. CAMBRIDGE, 44tArL 'h 4 3 MA , . Henry Alannitiz, c. cittre.h2,l% 11 o? or Stok4ntinhead, I)o , ms:fire, waa laGt week ad mitted a„Doaor in Divinity., 5 • Messi3. Charles Buick, 45t. john's College; ;T:hli Cooke, ,of Titrton, h G:forge Broli.l.cleic, of Jesitc.'C'oilei., Henry Finch, of Christ's, and John Clarkson,. . Trinity College,' are adalitted to the degree 0i.N.1 ter of Arts ; and Mr. 'Jo lilandford; of Tritlicy Hall,, to the degree of Bach eler in Law. , The Rev. John Hahne, M.A. Pillow of St. Peter'4 College,' has been presented by the Lard Chancellor. to the Vicarage of Hinton St. Arrln4. OXFORD, A .it u. 'O. Wednesday Last : the Rev, ;10;an Howie, of Exe, ter College, 'and the Rev. Justly Hill, of .&ev./.Coi lege, B.A. were adinitted Masters , of Arts. Thursday,.the Reverend Thomas Lee, B. D. and President. of Trinity. College, was admitted Dootttrin. Divinity. ..Rev. Samuel Pitt Stoekford and , nev. George William -Hall, of Pembroke Collede, Rev. Henry Antrob Cartwright, of Trinity C o l. 'lege, M.A. and Students in Divinity, were admitted Bachelor. 4 in Divinity. Charles Griffith * Wnne, Esq. and Rev. Reginald Frik* . r, of Ait SRuls . and Rev, .Georg.e. Waldron, St. Atry - Liall, B. . Were admitted Masters of Convounder9. The .Rev. J. Radcliffe, Minor, Canon of 'Cantor. bury Cathedral, has been pre.sent,d, by the 1):01 and Chapter, to the of Li !!ebourn, %•ac;ite , l by tbi, lotto of the Itev,, Joie.).ll Awe. , . ' SirllENity and Lady, FRANCE S . V ILiON day :It - rived at their beautiful place, Ctielse i Park, trohitlieir seat in 'Yorkshire. A - stag will be-turned out in Epping Forest, nri Muuddy next, for the diversion Of the lieliday sporty men. The Shrplas of the Consolidated Fund regaining • in . the Evbecluer for the disposition of Parliament, upon the .sth day of April, 1.808, after satisfying the sum of 3,7,59,0001. granted out of the Surplus 'of `the Consolidated'Vund,.for the service of the year 1807, ameunts to the sum of 7,45,8,701..95. The. Gazette of Tuesday night contains an•Oi•der in Council for continuing, during six mouths from the i 6th inst. the importation into any port or place in' Gteat Britain, of the following provisions, .duty free, viz. Kidney or French beans, tares, lentiles, calanvacies, and all other sorts ofpolse atarilso of bulls, cows, oxen, calves, sheep, lamb s ;' an d sw i ne , and of beef , pork, mutton, veal; and lamb (except salted beef and pork), and of bacon, hams, tongues,; butter, cheese, potatoes, rice, sago, sago powder, tapioca, vermicelli, millet-seed,, poultry, tbwls, eggs, game, and sauer-kraut. The Expedition which sailed from Bengal, tinder the naval command of Rear-Admiral Sir En •h+t.n PELLFINV is destined• against the remaining Dutch Settlements in that quarter of the globe. The troops embarked on this bervice aroma to i 8,00;) men. On Saturday the Dividends -on the 4 per - Cents. Reduced, and Long Annuities, nod Irish;, rr Cents. commenced paying _ /tt the for. which about 6,000,0001. were issued from the Exchequer a few days previous. The late Mr. L. the Stock-broker, whose' de ranged affairs drove him to the dreadtul relief-ui suicide, last week, to prevent himself from leaving open:his iron chest by negligence, forge/fulness, or hurry, had the key of it always fastened to his, body by a chiin. The new Themre which Mr. Srernru 'KLOIDT,I3 has been building . 3t Greenock is nearly finished, and is expe6ted to; open in June;.,-Mrs. S. Ku/v:BLE, who hartfong been declining state of health, is completely recovered, and will of course gr i ace the boards of the new 'berate.. • The revival of 7* l'zvo Gentlemen of Verona is soon to take place at Coyetit-Garden ":rhealfe. The brities • are dotibtful whether this Piece is really , the prochtfflon 91. Srimr.9reAus ; and thottgli it csrLii4• contains muelyvaluable matter, it does'not alto gether rise to the. A-an:lard of Oar great dramatic' Bard,. IZENHILE will, of course., 'take one' of itul serious. characters ;. and Altrx.oßt4 is to enliven the oddities ,c)f . . Mr; 14,4RENcli has sent his fine portrait of Mr. Pr'ri to the Royal: Academy, for the ensuing sea sori„ It kan admirable work of art, and a - faithful portrait of the great and estimable original. • A trotekb.wikh.has'eteited considerable interest, was to take platoon kingsweston Down,,near tol, yesterday, for tiftyguineas. Ir. EltiNia' to ride hicgalloWay 11.:tlf, a mile against Captain E4eascii, who is to' run a quarter of 'a mile.. Flu NT's gßlloWily.iS fleet,. but he. rides .npwards of 14 stone,.. therefore,.tlic odds at present are in - r3Vetir of tha t Captain, as, he is, a known good. runner,' and in training for the occasion. To start at two• o'clOrk. DICrC HORTON, the interacted rival of'Cutup, wai to run against time the same day. Thursday last presented to the inhabitants of firis tol, a very uncommon phenomenon :—ln conse quence of the immense quantity of rain which h;a fallen within these few days, the river Froo:ne was so swollen,' that it burst its •banks, and breaki ng , i n. at the Wear, poured an iintuense torrent of. wrier into the public streets ; St. Jamei's7back, their Whole of Broadmead, Old King-Street, t4eMlantistre o t, 'Newfoundland -street, and all,the avenu es adjacent, presented one immense she.etrat water, in many places four feet high, and at least three Ain high m the centre of several streets and lower apartments were full," aila the . , inhabitants were obliged 'to *lb the tippo- sto,ics for shelter.' Five or six, boats were employed all day in removing the people, and carryio T 1);:ovkions to those who' were obliged to remain. An nnme/i -sity of damage has been, done ; the goiids upon the wharfs of the Weer, and the adjoining sh:Ts, hay ing been either swept,away, or ruined by the flood. Friday the waters subsided. The admirers of that interesting Writ( r, Ma T. Da GRNO, will lean with Ole:Loire, that genni.o., Freneh Editions (with'notes) of her two new No. eels "Le Siege de la Roclicize," a i td Sinclair," ar e this day published by Coltlurn, at Condiii:-mreet, On Tuesdry - afternoon, as W. Du cA N •of Brunswick, 4 , quare, was sitting ;it 11;5 chart 1 , 1 p• r : t health, reading a'newspaper, t; l 4 pked immediately,